On 26.3.2012 07:07, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > On 03/26/2012 07:31 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: >>>> Are there tools or utilities to understand about the reason behind high >>>> load on CentOS Linux. >>>> Please help me understand with examples.
> The load average has relationship with I/O. Not necessarily. I would define load as the number of processes who are waiting to get cpu time. While a process is waiting for cpu there are 2 cases: a) the cpu is blocked waiting for a I/O operation to finish b) the cpu is calculating for another process -- Kind Regards, Markus Falb
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